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A polygon having six sides.
[Latin hexagōnum, from Greek hexagōnos, having six angles : hexa-, hexa- + -gōnos, angled; see –gon.]
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A polygon having six sides.
[Latin hexagōnum, from Greek hexagōnos, having six angles : hexa-, hexa- + -gōnos, angled; see –gon.]
A stop sign is shaped like a hexagon.
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A regular hexagon, {6} |
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| Edges and vertices | 6 |
| Schläfli symbols | {6} t{3} |
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| Symmetry group | Dihedral (D6) |
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120° |
In geometry, a hexagon is a polygon with six edges and six vertices. A regular hexagon has Schläfli symbol {6}.
The internal angles of a regular hexagon (one where all sides and all angles are equal) are all 120° and the hexagon has 720 degrees. It has 6 lines of symmetry. Like squares and equilateral triangles, regular hexagons fit together without any gaps to tile the plane (three hexagons meeting at every vertex), and so are useful for constructing tessellations. The cells of a beehive honeycomb are hexagonal for this reason and because the shape makes efficient use of space and building materials. The Voronoi diagram of a regular triangular lattice is the honeycomb tessellation of hexagons.
The area of a regular hexagon of side length
is given by 
The perimeter of a regular hexagon of side length
is, of course,
, its maximal diameter
, and its minimal diameter
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There is no platonic solid made of regular hexagons. The archimedean solids with some hexagonal faces are the truncated tetrahedron, truncated octahedron, truncated icosahedron (of soccer ball and fullerene fame), truncated cuboctahedron and the truncated icosidodecahedron.
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A beehive honeycomb |
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Crystal structure of a molecular hexagon composed of hexagonal aromatic rings reported by Müllen and coworkers in Chem. Eur. J., 2000, 1834-1839. |
Naturally formed basalt columns from Giant's Causeway in Ireland; large masses must cool slowly to form a polygonal fracture pattern |
An aerial view of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park |
The James Webb Space Telescope mirror is composed of 18 hexagonal segments. |
France somehow has a hexagonal shape. In French, "L'hexagone" sometimes refers to the country. |
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| Triangle • Quadrilateral • Pentagon • Hexagon • Heptagon • Octagon • Enneagon (Nonagon) • Decagon • Hendecagon • Dodecagon • Triskaidecagon • Pentadecagon • Hexadecagon • Heptadecagon • Enneadecagon • Icosagon • Chiliagon • Myriagon |
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Nederlands (Dutch)
hexagoon, zeshoek
Français (French)
n. - hexagone
Deutsch (German)
n. - Sechseck
Português (Portuguese)
n. - hexágono (m)
Русский (Russian)
шестиугольник
Español (Spanish)
n. - hexágono
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hexagon (geom.), sexhörning
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
六角形, 六边形
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 六角形, 六邊形
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) المسدس, , الشكل المسدس, , مسدس, الزوايا والاضلاع
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - משושה (מצולע)
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